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Highland Chinantec language

Oto-Mangue language spoken in Mexico

Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent.

01Phonology

Comaltepec

The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec:

1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants
2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised
Tones

Quiotepec

The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:

1. /β/ is heard as a glide [w] after /k/.
Vowels
Front Back
unroundedrounded unroundedrounded
High iy ɯu
Low eø ao
Tones
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